Did Sun News Reporter Faith Goldy Compare Abortion To Rape?

Interviewer: Editor

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Background

Every year in May, anti-choicers host "March for Life"; a large anti-choice rally in downtown Ottawa.

Reason

Faith Goldy, a notoriously outrageous "journalist" with the Sun News Network, asked myself and other Radical Handmaids if, as we argued, "making abortion legal keeps it safe, then wouldn't it stand to reason that we should legalize rape to make it safe?"

It was ridiculous, offensive and A+ trolling that I wasn't able to take quietly. I tweeted about it, which got the attention of The Huffington Post who wrote an article about it.

Comment

It was pretty straight forward and entirely factual, which is rare when it comes to coverage of these issues!

Outcome

I was expecting a heck of a lot more trolling, but I think most people understood how outrageous the whole thing was and were surprisingly, supportive.